Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersollwas an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 August 1833
CountryUnited States of America
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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.
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Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
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Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
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One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
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The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.
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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.
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They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.
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Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.
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A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted.